Rice Pudding With Golden Raisins

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Forget egg yolks and water baths. This is a simple and superb rice pudding that uses only milk, sugar, cream, rice, salt and your choice of flavorings: rum, almond extract, vanilla, orange zest, cardamom, nutmeg, anything else you can dream up. Add the raisins at the end so they don’t get too mushy as the pudding cooks.

by Melissa Clark·published 2013-03-27

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Easy, Custards And Puddings, Grains And Rice, Dessert

Servings

(6–8)

Total time

50 min

Calories / serving

186 kcal

Ingredients (10)

serves

3 1/2 cups whole milkmilk
1/4 cup heavy creamheavy-cream
1/3 cup light brown sugarbrown-sugar
1/2 cup long-grain white ricewhite-rice
1/4 teaspoon saltsalt
1 vanilla bean, splitvanilla
1 cinnamon stick or 4 cardamom podscinnamon
1 strip orange peel, 1-inch wide
1/3 cup golden raisins
Crème fraîche, for serving (optional)

Instructions (2 steps)

01In a medium heavy-bottom pot, combine milk, cream, sugar, rice and salt. Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean and drop them in along with the pod. Stir in cinnamon and orange peel. Bring mixture to a simmer; cook over medium-low heat, stirring frequently until rice is tender and mixture is slightly thickened, 30 to 40 minutes. Do not let mixture come to a boil and don’t let it get too thick, because it will thicken as it cools. Stir in raisins and let pudding rest for 5 minutes to soften them.
02Serve pudding warm, room temperature or chilled, with dollops of crème fraîche, if desired.

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